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Funny thing, illness. As inconvenient and frustrating as it can be, it has the unique redeeming quality of being able to...

It’s National Infertility Awareness Week. It’s a topic of which my husband and I are all too aware. Having spent years trying to conceive...

The world is full of mundane things. Things to which no one gives a second glance. But when you make those tiresome things smaller, they...

There come these moments in every mom's life (or so I assume, if only because I steadfastly refuse to accept that it is only in mine) whe...

No matter what you are or what you feel, I love you and I always will.

I was feeling a little overwhelmed and frustrated this morning until our doorbell rang and it was our neighbor requesting a jump for...

As a first-generation American, I’ve been fortunate enough to have the rather unique experience of seeing my country in split-screen view...

Raindrops slammed into the ground as if fired from a shotgun, each drop exploding like a land mine, carving its own crater in the dirt...

While I looked fine on the outside, and generally WAS when with others, the rest of the time I was terrified, frustrated, exhausted...

In the early Winter of 2009, in the midst of what should have been the great joy of expecting our son, I was in a very bad place. I was...

Here we are, folks, about to enter another fantastic season. Not Spring, of course, when Mother Nature shows off glorious cherry and...

Tonight at dinner, The Lass busted her dad and revealed that he made a jump for them on the big sledding hill last year. "On the steepest..

“Once in a lifetime” is a term often used to describe individual moments, snippets of life. Perfectly timed photos. Lightning strikes...

I find myself in a quandary. How do I say goodbye to someone I haven’t spoken to in twenty years? “Gosh, Jen,” you might say. “Twenty...

Originally Posted: 2019 *Names have been changed to protect the guilty. As I subbed in a Kindergarten classroom this morning, I...

In October 2012, my hubby and I decided to take a quick get-away to Captiva Island, Florida. We’d never done anything of the sort, and a...

To say the past several months have been rough would be to tell a half-truth. No, it would be to tell a one-sixteenth truth. Or maybe...

In 2018, my daughter innocently passed on words of wisdom that have reached much farther than she will likely ever know. Our conversation...

A blog post that always provides a good dose of perspective and a handy "Well, it's not as bad as the time..." story.